Tvedestrand

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Template:Audio is municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center is the town of Tvedestrand. There are many villages in the municipality including Dypvåg, Fiane, Gjeving, Gødderstad, Grønland, Kilen, Klåholmen, Krokvåg, Laget, Lyngør, Nesgrenda, Østerå, Sagesund, Sandvika, and Songe.<ref name="snl">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>

The town of Tvedestrand has a white-painted town center with irregular streets climbing steep hills around the harbor. The natural environment of the area makes it a tourist destination. The municipality includes numerous islands, which makes it popular in the summer for boaters. The number of people in the municipality practically doubles in the summer, due to vacationers. There are approximately 1,700 summer cottages ("hytter") around the fjord and coastal areas. Tvedestrand has over 2,000 buildings that are more than 100 years old.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The Template:Convert municipality is the 298th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Tvedestrand is the 154th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 6,184. The municipality's population density is Template:Convert and its population has increased by 2% over the previous 10-year period.<ref name="ssb pop">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ssb area">Template:Cite web</ref>

General information

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From the town centre of Tvedestrand
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Dypvåg Church

The town of Tvedestrand was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1960, the rural municipalities of Dypvåg (population: 1,805) and Holt (population: 3,759) were merged with the town of Tvedestrand (population: 868) to form a new municipality named Tvedestrand.<ref name="Dag">Template:Cite book</ref>

On 1 January 1962, the Strengereid area (population: 375) of Tvedestrand was transferred to neighboring Moland municipality. Then on 1 January 1964, the Holtegården area (population: 5) was transferred from Moland to Tvedestrand. The uninhabited Folevatnet area in Tvedestrand was transferred to the municipality of Risør on 1 January 1984.<ref name="Dag" />

Name

The town and municipality is named after the old Tveite farm (Template:Langx) since that is the location of the present town of Tvedestrand. The first element is the farm name which is the genitive case of the word Template:Wikt-lang which means "clearing" or "small farm". The last element is Template:Wikt-lang which means "beach" or "strand". Thus this is the beach of the Tveit farm.<ref name="snl" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted on 4 April 1986. The official blazon is "Azure, a tern volant argent" (Template:Langx). This means the arms have a blue field (background) and the charge is a tern, a type of local seabird. The tern has a tincture of argent which means it is commonly colored white, but if it is made out of metal, then silver is used. The blue color in the field and the tern were chosen to represent the sea since the municipality was historically dependent on it for its economy. The arms were designed by Daniel Rike. The municipal flag has the same design as the coat of arms.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:See also

Churches

The Church of Norway has three parishes (Template:Lang) within the municipality of Tvedestrand. It is part of the Aust-Nedenes prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.

Churches in Tvedestrand
Parish (Template:Lang) Church name Location of the church Year built
Dypvåg Dypvåg Church Dypvåg c. 1200
Holt Holt Church Fiane c. 1100
Laget Church Laget 1908
Tvedestrand Tvedestrand Church Tvedestrand 1861
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View of the village of Lyngør

History

Holt Church probably dates from the twelfth century and it has an ancient baptismal font. The interior was decorated by Torsten Hoff.

Around 1600, Tvedestrand was mainly a harbour for the Berge and Tveite farms’ boats, hence the name Tvedestrand (strand means beach or coast in Norwegian).

Lyngør was the site of the Battle of Lyngør between English and Dano-Norwegian forces during the Napoleonic Wars resulting in the sinking of the frigate of the Dano-Norwegian forces, Najaden by the British ship-of-the-line Dictator in 1812.

The town, as it now exists, was built in the 19th century as a harbour for Norway's longest existing iron works, Næs jernverk. Lying in the parish of Holt, Næs jernverk has one of the largest and most significant of the surviving mansions in Sørlandet, built by Ulrich Schnell. Schnell bought up various iron works in the neighborhood and set up several sawmills in the district. He obtained a special license to export timber directly from Tvedestrand, establishing the basis for an international harbor.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Government

Tvedestrand Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.<ref name="ks">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Agder District Court and the Agder Court of Appeal.

Municipal council

The municipal council (Template:Lang) of Tvedestrand is made up of 23 representatives that are elected to four-year terms. The tables below show the current and historical composition of the council by political party. Template:Div col Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Kommunestyre table Template:Div col end

Mayors

The mayors (Template:Langx) of Tvedestrand: Template:Div col

  • 1838-1840: Christian Holm
  • 1841-1842: Mads H. Smith
  • 1843-1846: Christian Holm
  • 1847-1848: Mads H. Smith
  • 1849-1849: Even Jørgensen
  • 1850-1851: Henrik Schäffer
  • 1852-1852: Even Jørgensen
  • 1853-1853: Mads H. Smith
  • 1854-1856: Johannes Holm
  • 1857-1864: S. Lund
  • 1865-1882: Fritz Smith
  • 1882-1885: A.M. Arntsen
  • 1886-1894: Ole Reiersen Lilleholt (V)
  • 1894-1895: Severin Jorkjend
  • 1896-1896: Andreas Biering Olsen
  • 1897-1897: Godtfred Milberg
  • 1898-1898: Andreas Biering Olsen
  • 1899-1900: Lars Grundesen
  • 1901-1904: Th. Hegland
  • 1905-1906: Godtfred Milberg
  • 1906-1909: Peder Christoffersen
  • 1909-1910: Sv. Svensen
  • 1910-1910: A.H. Grundesen
  • 1911-1917: Jakob Ørbæk
  • 1918-1919: A.H. Lindland
  • 1920-1923: Johan W. Wroldsen
  • 1924-1925: Kristen Bråten
  • 1926-1930: Andreas Bjelland
  • 1931-1931: Johan W. Wroldsen
  • 1932-1934: Andorf Bjørnlund
  • 1935-1940: Arnfinn Eskild
  • 1945-1945: Halvor Slotta
  • 1946-1946: Oluf Olsen
  • 1947-1947: Birger Jorkjend
  • 1948-1949: Egil Eide
  • 1950-1954: Arnold Jorkjend
  • 1955-1955: Egil Rosland
  • 1956-1957: Olaf R. Walle
  • 1958-1959: Egil Rosland
  • 1960–1967: Albert Albretsen (V)
  • 1968–1971: Jens Marcussen (H)
  • 1972–1973: Albert Albretsen (V)
  • 1974–1979: Erich Mørch (H)
  • 1980–1983: Per B. Marcussen (H)
  • 1984–1987: Karl Løhaugen (KrF)
  • 1988–1991: Per Tveite (Sp)
  • 1992–1995: May Britt Lunde (Ap)
  • 1995–2003: Torleif Haugland (KrF)
  • 2003-2019: Jan Dukene (LL)
  • 2019–present: Marianne Landaas (H)

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Geography

Tvedestrand municipality lies between the towns of Arendal to the southwest and Risør to the northeast. The municipality also borders the municipalities of Arendal, Risør, Froland, Åmli, and Vegårshei.

Tvedestrand belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet in the Østre Agder area of Agder county. The town itself lies at the end of a picturesque fjord, Tvedestrandfjorden, which is the name for the inner part of the Oksefjorden (originally Ufsefjorden, meaning the fjord with steep, rocky sides). The municipality also encompasses the islands Borøy, Sandøy, and Askerøya as well as the unique village of Lyngør which lies on several small islands. Lyngør was acclaimed "Europe's best preserved village" by Europa Nostra in 1991. Lyngør Lighthouse is located by the village. Tvedestrand municipality includes 162 islands, with a collected coastline of Template:Convert.

The river Storelva, one of the Southern Coast's best salmon and sea trout rivers, flows past the Næs jernverk and ultimately out into the Sandnesfjorden.

Climate

There are two climate zones in Tvedestrand under the Köppen classification. The outermost coast, influenced by the sea, experience a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb), while the inner parts have a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb), with temperatures in the coldest month typically averaging below 0°C. This means that snow cover can be inconsistent at the coast during winter, but is more reliable farther away from the coast. The town of Tvedestrand is somewhere in-between the two climate zones, with average temperatures in January and February hovering around 0°C. Daily highs in the town during July typically reach 21-22°C.

Lyngør lighthouse is located about Template:Convert from the town of Tvedestrand and has data going back to 1920. The station shows a typical climate for the outermost coast of the municipality. There, autumn is the wettest season and spring the driest. The all-time high temperature recorded here is Template:Convert, set on 12 August 1975.

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Geology

A number of rare minerals are found in Tvedestrand:

Attractions

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Næs verk
  • The 18th century Næs jernverk are Template:Convert from the town center.
  • Tvedestrand is recognized as a book town, a small village with a large number of second-hand or antiquarian book shops.
  • Interesting Places in Tvedestrand municipality:
    • Lyngør, a cluster of offshore islands which have been described as the 'Skagerrak Venice' and proclaimed by the European Commission to be “Europe’s best preserved village.”
    • Sagesund village
    • Sandøya island, including the villages of Kilen and Klåholmen
    • Borøya island

Notable people

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Knud Knudsen
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Gina Lund, 2012

International relations

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Twin towns — Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Tvedestrand:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

References

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